'The fair breeze blew
The white foam flew
The furrow followed free
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.'


The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

a

alliteration

b

repetition

c

paradox

d

rhyme scheme

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Sharaf
5 years ago

Alliteration Examples in Literature
Example #1
From Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.”

In the above lines we see alliteration (“b”, “f” and “s”) in the phrases “breeze blew”, “foam flew”, “furrow followed”, and “silent sea”.

sss3.com
5 years ago

It's alliteration

JenniferOdogwu
5 years ago

It's meant to be option 'A' since the explanation is about alliteration

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